Abstract
SummaryTomato plants were grown in hydroponic culture in a greenhouse. The effect of supplying bicarbonate, ammonium and calcium to saline nutrient solutions was investigated. High salinity (60 mM NaCl) decreased total and marketable yields of tomato fruit, mainly by reducing size fruit. Applications of ammonium produced the lowest marketable yield, by reducing the size and number of marketable fruit compared to the control treatment. This reduction was due to an increase in the number of fruits with blossom-end rot, probably caused by low Ca2+ concentration in the fruits.Although no significant effect on yield was produced by adding Ca2+, HCO3– or NH4+ to the saline treatment, some quality parameters, such as firmness, pH, total soluble solids (TSS), TSS/acidity ratio and glucose content, were affected.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
High salinity decreased total tomato fruit yield.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- High salinity (60 mM NaCl)e0
- Outcome
- totale0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“High salinity (60 mM NaCl) decreased total and marketable yields of tomato fruit, mainly by reducing size fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
High salinity decreased marketable tomato fruit yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- High salinity (60 mM NaCl)e0
- Outcome
- marketable yieldse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“High salinity (60 mM NaCl) decreased total and marketable yields of tomato fruit, mainly by reducing size fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
High salinity reduced tomato fruit size.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- High salinity (60 mM NaCl)e0
- Outcome
- size fruite0
- Direction
- reducinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“High salinity (60 mM NaCl) decreased total and marketable yields of tomato fruit, mainly by reducing size fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
Ammonium gave the lowest marketable tomato fruit yield relative to control.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- ammoniume0
- Outcome
- marketable yielde0
- Direction
- loweste0
- Comparator
- the control treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Applications of ammonium produced the lowest marketable yield, by reducing the size and number of marketable fruit compared to the control treatment.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ammonium reduced marketable fruit size relative to control.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- marketable fruite0
- Treatment
- ammoniume0
- Outcome
- sizee0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Comparator
- the control treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Applications of ammonium produced the lowest marketable yield, by reducing the size and number of marketable fruit compared to the control treatment.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ammonium reduced the number of marketable fruit relative to control.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- ammoniume0
- Outcome
- number of marketable fruite0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Comparator
- the control treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Applications of ammonium produced the lowest marketable yield, by reducing the size and number of marketable fruit compared to the control treatment.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ammonium increased the number of fruits with blossom-end rot.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- ammoniumt0
- Compound
- Ca2+e0
- Outcome
- number of fruits with blossom-end rote0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This reduction was due to an increase in the number of fruits with blossom-end rot, probably caused by low Ca2+ concentration in the fruits.”
t0“tomato fruit with ammonium”
Claim · model-written summary
Adding calcium, bicarbonate or ammonium to saline treatment did not significantly affect yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Ca2+, HCO3– or NH4+e0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Comparator
- the saline treatmente0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Although no significant effect on yield was produced by adding Ca2+, HCO3– or NH4+ to the saline treatment”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Nutrient additions to saline treatment affected tomato fruit firmness, pH and total soluble solids.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- calcium fertilisationt0
- Outcome
- firmness, pH, total soluble solids (TSS)e0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“some quality parameters, such as firmness, pH, total soluble solids (TSS), TSS/acidity ratio and glucose content, were affected.”
t0“tomato fruit with ammonium, bicarbonate and calcium fertilisation”
Claim · model-written summary
Nutrient additions to saline treatment affected tomato fruit TSS/acidity ratio and glucose content.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- calcium fertilisationt0
- Outcome
- TSS/acidity ratio and glucose contente0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“some quality parameters, such as firmness, pH, total soluble solids (TSS), TSS/acidity ratio and glucose content, were affected.”
t0“tomato fruit with ammonium, bicarbonate and calcium fertilisation”
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